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Source: https://jewishinsider.com/2020/11/obama-admin-officials-criticize-the-killing-of-mohsen-fakhrizadeh/
No Connection between Killing of Fakhrizadeh and New U.S. Administration
(Jewish Insider) Jacob Kornbluh - Veteran Israeli journalist Yossi Melman called the death of top Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh "a major psychological and professional blow for Iran." Former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East Michael Mulroy called it "a setback to Iran's nuclear program." While some critics said it complicates a U.S. return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, former U.S. Mideast envoy Dennis Ross maintained that "such an operation takes extensive planning, having operatives on the ground, actionable intelligence. It can't be spur of the moment....Saying this was done to derail what a Biden Administration will do simply ignores the reality of how these operations take place." Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said, "This operation would have occurred regardless of the U.S. election results because he [Fakhrizadeh] was a first order threat to the survival and security of the State of Israel."